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The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, 2003 edited and with an introduction by Laura Furman. - New York : Doubleday, 2003. - xviii, 366 pages ; 21 cm

"An Anchor original"--Title page verso.

Introduction / The thing in the forest / The shell collector / Burn your maps / Lush / God's goodness / Bleed blue in Indonesia / The story / Swept away / Meanwhile / Three days. A month. More. / The high road / Election eve / Irish girl / What went wrong / The American embassy / Kissing / Sacred statues / Fathers / Train dreams / Laura Furman -- A.S. Byatt -- Anthony Doerr -- Robyn Joy Leff -- Bradford Morrow -- Marjorie Kemper -- Adam Desnoyers -- Edith Pearlman -- T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Ann Harleman -- Douglas Light -- Joan Silber -- Evan S. Connell -- Tim Johnston -- Tim O'Brien -- Chimamanda Nqozi Adichie -- William Kittredge -- William Trevor -- Two words / Molly Giles -- Alice Munro -- Denis Johnson.

A new edition of the annual collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2003.

O. Henry Memorial Award, 2003.

ISBN: 1400031311 9781400031313

Standard No.: 9781400031313 51400

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories, American.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS 648 .S5 O23 2003